Red Jacket, Seneca chief, approximately 1756-1830

LC control no.	n 50049454
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Red Jacket, Seneca chief, approximately 1756-1830 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Cow Killer, approximately 1756-1830 Otetiani, approximately 1756-1830 Red Jacket, Seneca chief, 1751?-1830 Red Jacket, Seneca chief, ca. 1756-1830 Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, approximately 1756-1830 Sa-go-ye-wet-ha, approximately 1756-1830 Sagoyewatha, approximately 1756-1830 Sagu-ya-what-hath, approximately 1756-1830 Sa-go-you-wat-ha, approximately 1756-1830 Keeper awake, approximately 1756-1830
Other standard no.	14935071
Associated country	Seneca Nation of Indians
Birth date	1756~
Death date	1830-01-20
Place of birth	Seneca (N.Y. : Town)
Found in	Stone, W.L. The life and times of Red-Jacket, 1970: introd. (Red Jacket, or, Sa-go-ye-wet-ha) His Indian speech, 1810: t.p. (Red Jacket; Indian name is Sagu-ya-what-hath) "The amazing Iroquois" and the invention of the Empire State, 2023: CIP galley (Red Jacket; Seneca domestic affairs chief. Born in the Wolf Clan. Birth name, Otetiani, roughly translated as "Always Ready." Born in 1750s, probably 1758. Nicknamed "Red Jacket" about age 20, after the red jackets of the British Army. Was nicknamed "Cow Killer" at one point in the war. Inherited chieftanship after the war, and named "Sagoyewatha", translated as "He Keeps Them Awake", or "He Wakes Them Up Early," possibly in reference to his oratorical skills) Concise dict. of Indian tribes of N. Amer., 1979: p. 418 (Red Jacket: a famous Seneca orator, ca. 1756-1830) DAB (Red Jacket, c. 1758-Jan. 20, 1830; Seneca chief; Indian name: Sagoyewatha) History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1872: vol. 1, page 9 (Red Jacket; Seneca tribe) page 13 (born about A.D. 1756, at the place formerly called "Old Castle," now embraced in the town of Seneca, Ontario County, in the State of New York; His Indian name was Sa-go-you-wat-ha, or Keeper awake) page 28 (He died on the 20th of January, 1830, at his residence near Buffalo) Hodge. Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, 1907-1910 (Red Jacket; born about 1756, probably at Canoga, in Seneca co., N.Y., where a monument commemorates his birth)